Milica 2.docx

MILICA 2 Good morning, My college myself are standing before you all to express our views in the chosen topic, and that is digital art. I will start with a statement that traditional art is physical. For example it is something you can touch, smell, feel with all your senses, both during the creation process and later, when it is finished. This makes the artwork more complete, more real; more fulfilling to create and see. Traditional artwork is one of a kind. It can’t be copied. A traditional artwork is independent from electricity and modern technology. You can live far from civilization and create art this way without any problems. This makes the process of creation more natural and personal. Even though you can create traditional art away from the screen, it is a great hobby to do after an office work. Basic tools for traditional art are cheap or even free.. Sketching especially is the form of art that looks best when created with one tool, and that tool may be even an office ballpoint pen. Traditional art doesn’t let you easily fix your mistakes, thus forcing you to work harder to stop making them. This accelerates your improvement, if you don’t get discouraged or lost in search for some workarounds.

Milica 2 I will disagree, it is not cheap to start your adventure with digital art. A mouse is not enough, as it doesn’t register pressure, nor allows for natural drawing movement. You need a decent computer to paint without lag, and at least a small graphics tablet. It can be a serious obstacle for someone living with their parents, without personal income. The colors you see are produced by the screen and depend on its quality. A good monitor designed for photographers can be more expensive than a gaming PC, and even if you have it, you’ll never know how other people see your art on their screens.

And as I said before, traditional art can not be copied, however digital artwork can be copied so easily. You can produce one as easily as one thousand, and you can keep selling it after it is sold.. Digital art is also very easy to steal. And while the creator doesn’t lose the artwork, they can lose other rights of being the creator—like having a credit of creating it, or selling it. Digital artwork is digital and can’t be touched—you can only touch the screen, same for every artwork. Because the artwork is produced on the computer, you can easily lose it by accident—hardware failure, software failure, or even accidental saving over the file can all destroy your piece forever

MILICA 3 In conclusion there’s one more popular argument. Because digital artworks are so easy to copy, this makes them worthless. However, it comes down to associating the art with its carrier—the painting becomes one with the physical paint and canvas. This physical object becomes spiritually marked by its artist’s touch. And while it’s completely reasonable to assign some value to a carrier, saying that art is nothing more than some paint on the canvas sounds like a complete misunderstanding of the artist’s work. A hand-written book can certainly be pretty and worth a lot as an object, but the content stays separate from the paper and the ink. The book is meant to be read, not viewed, touched, and smelled. These can add to experience, sure, but they’re not a part of the book. An artwork is meant to be seen as well, and if it can only be seen, it shouldn’t make it any less of art, just because you can’t also touch it. Copying the book a thousand times lowers the value of a single carrier, but it doesn’t make the book worthless—even if it doesn’t have any carrier and is only displayed on your Kindle. We may not be used to such thinking when it comes to art, because digital art is still somewhat new to us, but it doesn’t change the logic—the physical carrier used to be necessary for art, but it’s not anymore.